Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of my favorite trees is the iconic American Beech (Fagus grandifolia). I love its smooth, light bluish gray bark — the silvery ...

The first three weeks of February this year gave us some very cold nighttime temperatures that bottomed out near zero degrees Fahrenheit several nights. The tree I’m showing you here is a large ...

Do you have a street in your town named Beech Street or maybe a Beech Hill? You probably don’t give it another thought, but the American beech tree is really special – and they’re now under threat. So ...

As American beech trees go, the one in Jim Berman and Liz Bryant’s backyard is a whopper. At a circumference of 210.5 inches at the base, it’s officially the largest of its species in Indiana. “It is ...

Brianna Shepherd, research specialist at Holden Forests & Gardens, measures the diameter of an American beech tree as part of a long-term study on the impacts of beech leaf disease. First observed in ...

Invasives have largely wiped out the American chestnut and elm, caused “hell” with the beech, and are now wreaking havoc on the eastern hemlock and white ash Signs of beech bark disease on the bark of ...

Pests are ravaging keystone species like ash, elm, and beech. But researchers are breeding the survivors into more resilient populations. Port Orford cedar trees in Redwood National Park that were ...

American beeches (Fagus grandifolia) have been suffering recently from a disease widespread in both Connecticut landscapes and forests, Beech leaf disease (BLD), caused by a foliar nematode, ...

One of my favorite trees is the iconic American Beech (Fagus grandifolia). I love its smooth, light bluish gray bark — the silvery green leaf in spring that gradually changes to a dark green in summer ...

Its nuts, rich in fat and protein, provide food for much of the forest fauna, along with forest habitat for a wide range of wildlife. Left untreated it is estimated the demise of a beech tree with BLD ...